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Staff and Volunteer Wellbeing
The staff wellbeing team are pleased to announce that the following will be available to you in October:
- Daily Virtual Break Rooms – this is a Teams room that will be available during lunch hours for you to drop in and catch up with colleagues while having a break in […]
Connecting Carers Project
We have recently secured funding from Carers Trust and as a result have been able to combine the solution to two issues facing a lot of carers: isolation and digital exclusion.
Check in & Chat is a service offered by volunteer telephone befrienders to carers who are in need of a […]
Drugs and Alcohol Awareness Staff dropin and Q&A
Message from the D&A Team:
As part of our offer and internal awareness for Alcohol Awareness week ( 16th November) Kelly and Audrey are offering two Drugs and Alcohol staff drop in sessions, with the chance for staff to ask questions, so that staff are prepared on Response Line for any […]
Debbie Curtis leaving the mental health carer team
I’m sorry to share the news that Debbie Curtis is leaving the mental health carer team after almost 7 years with CSWS. Debbie will be greatly missed by colleagues, partners and most of all by carers in the Crawley area.
She is moving on to a new adventure in France and […]
Hope Works
Free online course for staff to help you balance work and life during and after ‘lockdown’.
Life can be stressful at times. Given the current COVID-19 pandemic many of us experience concerns about our health, our jobs and family members. The current crisis is disrupting our personal and working lives and impacts our mental health in […]
Check in & Chat Befriending Service, including support to reduce digital exclusion
We have been successful in gaining funding from the Carers Trust to add to our Befriending Pilot (Check in & Chat) by providing training to volunteers and staff to allow them to have a toolkit and information around a digital information. As part of this, we are joining Digital […]
June CRM Updates
Access to the current Access Database will be restricted from 5pm on Friday 3rd July so we can move the data over from the old system to the new. There will be no Response Line or Hospital Service activity over that weekend. We will announce these closures via social media […]
Volunteer Q&A Session with Sonia
Q: How are we going forward with 1-1 counselling? With 2m distance out of buildings and potentially into people’s homes?
A: We are currently staying with Government Guidance that if you can work from home then you should continue to do so. Before we return to offices, we […]
Dementia Friends Training
We made a commitment some time ago to give all our staff and volunteers the opportunity to become a Dementia Friend.
For a long time this session was included in staff induction days.
Our staff and volunteers can now become a Dementia Friend by completing an online course and watching a short […]
Carers Week Staff Rota
Your support please
In order to ensure the comfort of our carers and the facilitators, we would be grateful if we could receive support for these online events from staff and volunteers please. The support will be quite good fun, because essentially, you are attending the course. We just ask that […]